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...three friends met up with the top Moscow-trained DISZ leader, drunk and convivial in a restaurant, and one of Janos' friends suggested that what DISZ needed was a social club where young Communists could sit around, drink tea and play chess. A few days later, DISZ opened the Kossuth Club at its headquarters on Republic Square. Janos and his circle sent out word: use the club...
...Budapest's young Communist intellectuals crowded into the Kossuth Club, another suggestion was made to DISZ: Why not form a discussion group, strictly within the club, of course? The discussion group quickly became the hottest thing in town. It was called the Petofi Club...
Both clubs were named after Hungarian revolutionaries, which suited the Russian book, but neither the Russians nor their Hungarian stooges seemed to realize that the names of Kossuth and Petofi were dangerously charged with patriotic and nationalist sentiment. In September 2,000 young Communists crowded into the Petofi Club to hear a discussion on the Communist-controlled press. The meeting had been packed with old hard-core Communists and AVH men, but nevertheless the debate was free and furious. Janos and his friends left feeling that they had scored heavily against the system...
...Magyars for 170 years, and when at last in the 17th century they were driven out, the remaining Magyars found themselves a vassal state in the empire of the Austrian Habsburgs.* In 1848, when all Europe was arumble with the thunder of revolt, young Poet Sandor Petofi and Lajos Kossuth, the lawyer son of a Magyarized Slovak family of the Hungarian petty nobility, together sparked Hungary's most successful revolution. Poet Petofi died in the fight. Lawyer Kossuth went on to proclaim himself the head of an independent Hungary, but his triumph was short-lived. Skillful players...
...games, bitterness still flared in Melbourne's Olympic Village. Officials waited nervously to see whether any more nations would pull out; the Hungarian team tore down the Communist flag, hoisted, black-draped, a Hungarian flag with the Kossuth arms. But the big news was about the U.S. .team...